5.23.2014

On my recent trip to Hobby Lobby...

On my recent trip to Hobby Lobby I found...


Only 216 days to go!

5.22.2014

Grammy Summer Camp

I am going to have Sunny and Thunder three days a week from now until school starts on August 6th. Since I don't want them to just lay around and watch TV, I've come up with a summer curriculum to keep us busy having fun every day.

Generally Monday is Library day, Tuesday is music/art day, and Wednesday is cooking class (as Sunny calls it). I've also assigned each day a letter of the alphabet and some days are specific color days. I'm throwing in some theme days (Jungle Day, Circus Day, Backward Day, etc) for extra fun. Dan & I plan to ride the light rail with them one day and also take a trip on a city bus. My goals for Sunny are to teach her to read, help her with her math skills and teach her to tie her shoes. I'm going to work on counting skills with Thunder, as well as alphabet skills. I hope they don't get bored!

I had Sunny over yesterday and since it was Wednesday she was anticipating "cooking class". I hadn't planned to start until next week, so I had to come up with something that I had all of the ingredients for. I had just found a recipe for Peanut Butter M & M cookies on the Internet so that's what we made. The cookies were delicious. And as you can see from the photos below, Sunny had a great time!

(BTW, the covers are off the sockets because we're painting the kitchen)

Our ingredients: Peanut butter, sugar, baking soda, 1 egg, pink M&Ms

Showing off her mixing skills

Stirring in the M&Ms

Ready for the oven

Ready to eat!

5.01.2014

Finally, Our Family Easter Celebration

Our family Easter celebration took place the Saturday before Easter Sunday. Now that the grands are getting older, we have more fun than ever! We decorated Easter Egg sugar cookies on Friday. And on Saturday we had an Easter Egg Hunt as well as baskets from the Easter Bunny. A fun time was had by all!

Tia Jessica and Sunny decorating cookies

Gramps helping Thunder

What we lacked in talent we made up for in enthusiasm!

Easter baskets

Jess found this idea on Pinterest

Me, Jess, Thunder, Sunny

Gramps and Grammy always want a photo!

The Greats with the Grands

Tia Katie feeling for Storm

Toddler level Easter Egg Hunt

A higher degree of difficulty

The hunt is on!

Gigi found these and the kids just loved them!

Dan, Matt, Mark, Zach

Examining their loot

Skye listening for Storm 
(her white shirt was off to protect it from chocolate!)

Skye, Jessica, Sunny, Shelby, Ashley

Matt, Katie, Kelly

Gramps with the grands

Kelly's mom made this scarf for Sunny